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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Gottfried Leibniz

Meaning of "a posteriori" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD A POSTERIORI

From Latin, literally: from the latter (that is, from effect to cause).
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PRONUNCIATION OF A POSTERIORI

a posteriori  [eɪ pɒsˌtɛrɪˈɔːraɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF A POSTERIORI

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
A posteriori is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES A POSTERIORI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Empirical evidence

Empirical evidence is a source of knowledge acquired by means of observation or experimentation. The term comes from the Greek word for experience, Εμπειρία. Empirical evidence is information that justifies a belief in the truth or falsity of an empirical claim. In the empiricist view, one can claim to have knowledge only when one has a true belief based on empirical evidence. This stands in contrast to the rationalist view under which reason or reflection alone is considered to be evidence for the truth or falsity of some propositions. The senses are the primary source of empirical evidence. Although other sources of evidence, such as memory, and the testimony of others ultimately trace back to some sensory experience, they are considered to be secondary, or indirect. In another sense, empirical evidence may be synonymous with the outcome of an experiment. In this sense, an empirical result is a unified confirmation. In this context, the term semi-empirical is used for qualifying theoretical methods which use in part basic axioms or postulated scientific laws and experimental results.

Definition of a posteriori in the English dictionary

The definition of a posteriori in the dictionary is relating to or involving inductive reasoning from particular facts or effects to a general principle. Other definition of a posteriori is derived from or requiring evidence for its validation or support; empirical; open to revision.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH A POSTERIORI


brontosauri
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Centauri
sɛnˈtɔːraɪ
cry
kraɪ
dry
draɪ
fry
fraɪ
ichthyosauri
ˌɪkθɪəˈsɔːraɪ
Madurai
ˈmædjʊˌraɪ
mosasauri
ˌməʊsəˈsɔːraɪ
pry
praɪ
pylori
paɪˈlɔːraɪ
rai
raɪ
retry
riːˈtraɪ
rye
raɪ
samurai
ˈsæmʊˌraɪ
sori
ˈsɔːraɪ
Tauri
ˈtɔːraɪ
thesauri
θɪˈsɔːraɪ
tori
ˈtɔːraɪ
try
traɪ
uredosori
jʊˌriːdəʊˈsɔːraɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE A POSTERIORI

a month of Sundays
a mountain to climb
a mug´s game
a nail in one´s coffin
a name to conjure with
A number 1
a piece of crumpet
a piece of goods
a pig in a poke
a pop
a pox on someone
a pressurized environment
a pretty penny
a priori
A road
a run for one´s money
A series
A shares
a shingle short
a shot across someone´s bows

WORDS THAT END LIKE A POSTERIORI

a fortiori
a priori
Cori
gori
hori
koori
memento mori
millefiori
Montessori
Moriori
nori
poori
Pori
Ruwenzori
satori
signiori
signori
tandoori
yakitori
zori

Synonyms and antonyms of a posteriori in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «a posteriori» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF A POSTERIORI

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The translations of a posteriori from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «a posteriori» in English.

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后验
1,325 millions of speakers

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a posteriori
570 millions of speakers

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a posteriori
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अनुभवजन्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

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البعدية
280 millions of speakers

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апостериорная
278 millions of speakers

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a posteriori
270 millions of speakers

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একটি পোস্টাররি
260 millions of speakers

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a postériori
220 millions of speakers

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A posteriori
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a posteriori
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

事後
130 millions of speakers

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사후
85 millions of speakers

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A posteriori
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đời sau
80 millions of speakers

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ஒரு சுவரொட்டி
75 millions of speakers

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एक पोस्टर
75 millions of speakers

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Bir posteriori
70 millions of speakers

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a posteriori
65 millions of speakers

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posteriori
50 millions of speakers

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апостериорная
40 millions of speakers

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a posteriori
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Translator English - Greek

εκ των υστέρων
15 millions of speakers
af

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a posteriori
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

efterhand
10 millions of speakers
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a posteriori
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «A POSTERIORI»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «A POSTERIORI» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about a posteriori

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2 QUOTES WITH «A POSTERIORI»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word a posteriori.
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Saul Kripke
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.
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Gottfried Leibniz
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «A POSTERIORI»

Discover the use of a posteriori in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to a posteriori and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Posteriori Error Estimation in Finite Element Analysis
The present work is intended to provide an introduction to the subject of a posteriori error estimation for finite element approximations of boundary value problems in mechanics and physics. The treatment is by no means exhaustive, focusing ...
Mark Ainsworth, J. Tinsley Oden, 2011
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A Posteriori Estimates for Partial Differential Equations
This book deals with the reliable verification of the accuracy of approximate solutions which is one of the central problems in modern applied analysis.After giving an overview of the methods developed for models based on partial ...
Sergey I. Repin, 2008
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A Posteriori Error Analysis Via Duality Theory: With ...
Provides a posteriori error analysis for mathematical idealizations in modeling boundary value problems, especially those arising in mechanical applications, and for numerical approximations of numerous nonlinear variational problems.
Weimin Han, 2006
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A Posteriori Error Estimation for Hybridized Mixed and ...
In this work connections between the methods and their hybridized counterparts are established after showing the link between three different formulations of the elliptic model problem.
Johannes Neher, 2012
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A review of a posteriori error estimation and adaptive ...
Presenting the most frequently used error estimators which have been developed by various scientists in the last two decades, this book demonstrates that they are all based on the same basic principles.
Rüdiger Verfürth, 1996
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Naturalism, Rationalism, and Rethinking the a Priori/a ...
Epistemology has undergone a "naturalistic revolution," and one common charge against naturalism (or by naturalism) is that a priori knowledge is not possible given a naturalistic framework.
Jennifer Lynn Wilson, 2006
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Imagining Otherwise: Metapsychology and the Analytic a ...
This work sets out to perform a psychoanalytic inversion of transcendental philosophy, taking Kant's synthetic a priori judgments and reading them in terms of a foreclosed Kantian category, that of the analytic a posteriori.
Andrew Cutrofello, 1997
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A Construction of a Posteriori Physicalism
This dissertation aims to provide a posteriori answers to the mystery of consciousness, which can be articulated in the form of the zombie argument, which denies physicalism if there is a possible world in which a physical/functional ...
Woojin Han, 2007
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Reliable Methods for Computer Simulation: Error Control and ...
In this book, we are chiefly concerned with the problem (b) and try to present the main approaches developed for a posteriori error estimation in various problems.
Pekka Neittaanmäki, Sergey R. Repin, 2004
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A Posteriori Error Estimation Techniques for Finite Element ...
R. Verfiirth, A posteriori error estimatesfor nonlinear problems: L"(O, T; Wl'p (Q))- error estimates for finite element discretizations of parabolic equations, Numer. Methods Partial Differential Equations 14 (1998), no. 4, 4874518. R. Verfiirth, A ...
Rüdiger Verfürth, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «A POSTERIORI»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term a posteriori is used in the context of the following news items.
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YAP activation protects urothelial cell carcinoma from treatment …
Criteria for animal inclusion and exclusion were based on an independent assessment according to AAA-LAC guidelines, and a posteriori all ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
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Les start-up menacées par une attaque de clones
... quelques années que l'on peut estimer l'impact sur le marché. L'idée de l'innovation de rupture, c'est souvent une lecture a posteriori.». «Le Temps, Jun 15»
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FMI: Christine Lagarde prête à "considérer" un deuxième mandat
Ce que l'on peut regretter a posteriori, c'est que les membres de la zone euro n'aient pas été assez rapides pour mettre en place un ... «Challenges.fr, Jun 15»
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Écoutes des présidents français : en visite à Washington, Macron …
... choix de laisser ouvert à tous la possibilité de commenter ses articles avec un système de modération a posteriori. Sous couvert d'anonymat, ... «Atlantico.fr, Jun 15»
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Ces mauvaises nouvelles qui s'accumulent sur l'horizon budgétaire …
... choix de laisser ouvert à tous la possibilité de commenter ses articles avec un système de modération a posteriori. Sous couvert d'anonymat, ... «Atlantico.fr, Jun 15»
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The Labor Malpractices Lawsuits Slapped Against Uber
A posteriori to the classification certifying the Uber Company has employees and not contractors, a lawsuit was filed as for the reason of labor ... «Times Gazette, Jun 15»
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Venticinque anni dopo: da dove soffia il vento?
E forse una riflessione a posteriori sul bilancio degli effetti prodotti dalle decisioni non inevitabili né ineluttabili prese 25 anni fa potrebbe ... «EuNews, Jun 15»
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El PP pierde 15 capitales de provincia por los pactos, gobernará en …
... y por los pactos de izquierda que se han producido a posteriori y también de los nacionalistas. El PSOE ha pasado de ocho a un total de 17, ... «Lainformacion.com, Jun 15»
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Before Nigeria, There Was Ghana
Given the relatively transformational impact that Rawlings brought to Ghana, the temptation is to argue, a posteriori, that this end justified the ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
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Grèce : Michel Sapin estime qu'un accord est proche, "c'est …
... choix de laisser ouvert à tous la possibilité de commenter ses articles avec un système de modération a posteriori. Sous couvert d'anonymat, ... «Atlantico.fr, Jun 15»

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